Maria Garaña

CEO | Board Member

📍 Spain🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023
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Non Executive Board Member
May 2016
Allianz Trade is the global leader in trade credit insurance and a recognized specialist in the areas of surety, collections, structured trade credit and political risk. For over a century, we have been helping businesses like yours anticipate risks, act with speed, make informed decisions and grow securely. Headquartered in Paris, we are present in more than 50 countries with 5,500 employees. In 2021, our global business transactions represented 931 billion Euro in exposure. As a member of the Allianz Group, we are a strong global community committed to a culture where both people and performance matter. We truly care for our employees and their individual needs and aspirations. We all shape an environment in which everyone has the confidence to dream, to explore and to grow.   Let’s take control of tomorrow, together. Allianz Trade is the trademark used to designate a range of services provided by Euler Hermes. For more information, please visit allianz-trade.com or follow us on X and Instagram @AllianzTrade.
Non Executive Board Member
Mar 2012
The EIT was created to drive Europe’s ability to innovate. The EIT is a unique EU initiative, the only one to fully integrate business, education and research. The Institute supports the development of dynamic pan-European partnerships among leading universities, research labs and companies. These are called Innovation Communities and each is dedicated to finding solutions to a specific global challenge. Together with their leading partners, they offer a wide range of innovation and entrepreneurship activities. This includes education courses that combine technical and entrepreneurial skills, business creation and acceleration services and innovation driven research projects. The EIT Community powers innovators and entrepreneurs across Europe to turn their best ideas into products, services, jobs and growth.
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2023
Board Member & Investor
Oct 2023
Founded in 2012, Forterro has grown to become a category leader software solutions for the industrial market – with strongholds in Europe’s top production economies, as well as regional service hubs and development centres around the world. From more than 40 office locations, our 1,600+ employees provide and support software for more than 13,000 industrial businesses. Our products are deeply rooted in the demands of their local geography. And each is designed to strengthen and accelerate our customers’ ability to operate efficiently and compete effectively.
2017
Managing Director EMEA, Google Professional Services
Dec 2017
A problem isnt truly solved until its solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone. Check out our career opportunities at goo.gle/3DLEokh
2016
Non Executive Board Member
May 2016
Allianz Trade is the global leader in trade credit insurance and a recognized specialist in the areas of surety, collections, structured trade credit and political risk. For over a century, we have been helping businesses like yours anticipate risks, act with speed, make informed decisions and grow securely. Headquartered in Paris, we are present in more than 50 countries with 5,500 employees. In 2021, our global business transactions represented 931 billion Euro in exposure. As a member of the Allianz Group, we are a strong global community committed to a culture where both people and performance matter. We truly care for our employees and their individual needs and aspirations. We all shape an environment in which everyone has the confidence to dream, to explore and to grow.   Let’s take control of tomorrow, together. Allianz Trade is the trademark used to designate a range of services provided by Euler Hermes. For more information, please visit allianz-trade.com or follow us on X and Instagram @AllianzTrade.
Non Executive Board Member.
Feb 2016
Alantra is an independent global financial services firm that provides investment banking and asset management services to mid-market companies, families, and investors. The Group has over 500 professionals in Europe, the U.S., Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. In Investment Banking, Alantra has completed over 1,000 transactions in the last five years. Alantra combines a strong local presence in key financial centers with global sector- and product-specialized teams. In Alternative Asset Management, Alantra offers its clients unique access to a wide range of investment strategies in five highly specialized asset management classes (private equity, active funds, private debt, energy, and venture capital). As of 31 December 2025, assets under management from consolidated businesses stood at c. €2.7bn, while those managed by firms in which the Group holds a strategic stake amounted to c. €14.5bn.
2012
Non Executive Board Member
Mar 2012
The EIT was created to drive Europe’s ability to innovate. The EIT is a unique EU initiative, the only one to fully integrate business, education and research. The Institute supports the development of dynamic pan-European partnerships among leading universities, research labs and companies. These are called Innovation Communities and each is dedicated to finding solutions to a specific global challenge. Together with their leading partners, they offer a wide range of innovation and entrepreneurship activities. This includes education courses that combine technical and entrepreneurial skills, business creation and acceleration services and innovation driven research projects. The EIT Community powers innovators and entrepreneurs across Europe to turn their best ideas into products, services, jobs and growth.
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